Landscape Architect's Portable Handbook
444 pages, parution le 15/01/2001
Résumé
Get answers FAST with the Landscape Architect's
One-Stop,Take-It-Anywhere GuideIn the office or out on the
job, the Landscape Architect's Portable Handbook puts the
20% of information you need 80% of the time at your
fingertips! You get instant data for every architectural
landscaping project: public and private gardens...athletic
facilities...highways...urban/suburban settings...MORE!
From project administration, planning, design standards and
analysis to site development, construction, materials,
field techniques, and common rules of thumb, hundreds of
handy tables, diagrams and schematics, checklists and field
guides give you the accurate how-to's and expertise you
need – ANYWHERE, ANYTIME! It packs easily in your
briefcase, so you can cut down on time-consuming trips and
calls between field and office, or get satisfyingly fast
facts and guidelines when you're catching up on work at
home. It's a distillation of the entire profession...and
provides the perfect ASLA registration exam review. You
get:
- A framework for interpretation, conceptualization, evaluation, and communication at multiple scales, regardless of the type of landscape planning or design project
- Standards, techniques and devices
- Analysis-to-project administration guidelines and checklists
- Step-by-step procedures
- Mechanics and design calculations, formulas, worked examples and models
- 193 clarifying illustrations — from USDA plant hardiness zones to basic layouts and schematic diagrams...from approval processes flow charts to a CPM bar chart
- 98 quick-check tables let you instantly pinpoint area space standards...tree mortality causes and remedies...recommended liveloads for different decking uses and maximum decking spans...irrigation system selection criteria – and much, much more
- Scores of easy-to-use, easy-to-remember rules of thumb
- General unit cost factors for materials, systems, and construction
- More!
- the 20% of the data you need 80% of the time
- field methods, rules of-thumb, standards, codes, and energy guidelines
- scores of handy visual summaries, checklists, and tables
- general unit cost factors for materials, systems, and construction
- analysis-to-project-administration guidelines
- perfect license exam review
- Ch. 1 Introduction: A Framework for Design 1
- Ch. 2 Pedestrian Standards 27
- Ch. 3 Vehicular Standards 45
- Ch. 4 Recreation Standards 59
- Ch. 5 Conservation Standards 83
- Ch. 6 Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment Standards 99
- Ch. 7 Community Standards 119
- Ch. 8 Layout and Surveying 139
- Ch. 9 Construction Operations 155
- Ch. 10 Grading 171
- Ch. 11 Stormwater Management 193
- Ch. 12 Planting 217
- Ch. 13 Earth Retaining Structures 237
- Ch. 14 Paving 257
- Ch. 15 Fences and Walls 271
- Ch. 16 Decks 293
- Ch. 17 Water Features 315
- Ch. 18 Lighting 337
- Ch. 19 Irrigation 357
- Ch. 20 Project Management 381
- Ch. 21 Permitting Processes 399
- Ch. 22 Cost Estimating 411
- App.: Metric Conversion Guidelines 425
- Index 433
L'auteur - Kyle Brown
He is an Executive Java Consultant with IBM WebSphere
Services. He has over 11 years of experience in designing
and architecting large-scale object-oriented systems. He
specializes in developing and promoting "best practices"
approaches to designing enterprise systems using
Java.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Mc Graw Hill |
| Auteur(s) | Nicholas Dines, Kyle Brown |
| Parution | 15/01/2001 |
| Nb. de pages | 444 |
| Format | 13,5 x 21,3 |
| Couverture | Relié |
| Poids | 560g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780071344227 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-07-134422-7 |
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